New Psychotherapy Services and Groups in Chicago

Low fee therapy now available! We will set your fee based on your financial circumstances.

Please contact us to begin in-person therapy or remote therapy by phone or video.

Read the latest issue of
our newsletter,
Psychotherapy Dialogues, here. 

Seeking Full Time Associate Therapist

Lakeview Center for Psychotherapy has an opening for a full-time associate therapist in our collaborative practice.  If you are an experienced psychodynamic therapist panelled with BCBS and able to work flexible hours, please contact us. BIPOC therapists are strongly encouraged to apply.

Virtual Integrative Psychotherapy Consultation Group

This group is open to new therapists anywhere in the world who have just finished a graduate program as well as therapists who wish to integrate new orientations and interventions into their repertoire.  We will focus on combining symptom-focused, insight-oriented, and unconscious focused interventions from the psychodynamic, cognitive/behavioral, and experiential traditions, and will discuss cases from an integrative relational perspective.

Sundays, Monthly, noon $50 per group.

Contact:  Niquie Dworkin, PhD

Extern and Post Grad Fellowship Positions

We will begin accepting applications for our 2023 post-grad fellowship on November 1. We will begin accepting application for our 2023 externship on January 1, 2023.  For more info, please see our Training page.

New In Person All Gender Interpersonal Process Group Forming Now!

These groups provides a forum for members to explore how they contribute and react to interpersonal pressures and opportunities.  Participants can learn about the customary social roles they assume, and make changes to relationship patterns that feel problematic and unfulfilling.  Members will challenge, support, and help heal each other emotionally.

Saturdays, 9:30-10:45
Please contact Sevil Aksoy

Tuesdays 6-7:20pm
Please contact Gabriel Linn, MSW

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Fellowship

This unpaid, open-ended fellowship will enable licensed and unlicensed clinicians to learn intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy under the supervision of an experienced contemporary psychoanalytic clinician. Fellows will see 2-3 clients 3-5 times a week until each client is able to shift their unconscious conflicts and long-standing relationship patterns with self and others. Applications for this fellowship will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Contact:  Niquie Dworkin, PhD

Psychotherapy Offices for Rent Part-Time

Lakeview Center for Psychotherapy currently has offices that can be rented in 4, 6 or 8 hours blocks on weekends only.  You may rent the whole weekend: Friday evening, Saturday, and Sunday for a flat fee that varies according to office size. The offices are tastefully furnished and in a building fully occupied by therapists.  To see photos of the offices and our building, please check out the Rent an Office page.  For more information on rentals and to visit our offices, please email Kate Fiello, LCSW or call her at 773-525-3322.

Individual/Group DBT

DBT skills groups offer strategies for managing strong emotions and scan be a valuable addition to individual psychotherapy.  DBT skills groups may be particularly useful to individuals struggling with eating disorders, self-injury, anger, and other impulsive and compulsive behaviors.  The groups are open to new members every four weeks.  Each unit focuses on one of the four DBT Skill Areas:  Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.  The groups are open to clients of all genders, aged 16 and up.

Our DBT skills group is on a temporary hiatus. To begin individual DBT and transition to group when it resumes,
please contact Cecilia Franchi

Doctor Democracy: Is your relationship, friendship or family struggling over divisive politics? We can help!

Learn how to communicate more productively and accept political differences.

Contact:  Niquie Dworkin, PhD

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